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    The Clicker Man: how the Internet gives access to everything, but most of what we see is a mirror image of ourselves that keeps us in an ego-loop!
    The Clicker Man: how the Internet gives access to everything, but most of what we see is a mirror image of ourselves that keeps us in an ego-loop!
    The Clicker Man: how the Internet gives access to everything, but most of what we see is a mirror image of ourselves that keeps us in an ego-loop!
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    The Clicker Man: how the Internet gives access to everything, but most of what we see is a mirror image of ourselves that keeps us in an ego-loop!

    By Cid Gonçalves Filho

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    This book is about our device-oriented society, in which most of the population (including children) is online during a significant part of their lives. It relates technically the why our society should debate the way we deliver and consume information. Most of us are creating a sense of reality based on bubbles of closed-loop information and relationships. As approximately 95% of users of search engines stop their search on the first page presented, this page is (mostly) a mix of the completely standardized page (the same everybody who types a keyword receives) with a bit of personalization. Similar behavior takes place on social media, which is more loop-centered in the same groups, friends, and related content. These behaviors generate an ego-echo system that, to satisfy consumers, returns them to what they request, creating a semi-autistic process, in which new knowledge is not necessarily added. The process creates an instantaneous series of point and search activities (one search lead to the next), resulting in an unstructured learning process based on previous behavior. In this sense, this booklet aims to create a debate to improve knowledge creation and learning in the digital world, as humankind has created a spectacular knowledge base that is being improved to develop our societies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEditora Dialética
    Release dateMay 21, 2021
    ISBN9786559567515
    The Clicker Man: how the Internet gives access to everything, but most of what we see is a mirror image of ourselves that keeps us in an ego-loop!

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      The Clicker Man - Cid Gonçalves Filho

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      PREFACE

      As approximately 95% of users of search engines stop their search on the first page presented, this page is (mostly) a mix of the completely standardized page (the same everybody who types a keyword receives) with a bit of personalization. Similar behavior takes place on social media, which is more loop-centered. It generates an ego-echo system that, in order to satisfy consumers, returns them to what they want, creating a semi-autistic process, in which new knowledge is not necessarily added, and presented under request, resulting in an unstructured learning process. This speech is a list of concerns and suggestions to improve this internet ecosystem, to contribute to the improvement of this valuable group of service providers.

      SUMÁRIO

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      Créditos

      1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANKIND KNOWLEDGE

      2. THE NETWORK EFFECT AND HOW IT CHANGES THE WAY WE LEARN AND SOCIALIZE

      3. THE ERA OF VIRTUALITY: ARE WE PREPARED?

      4. THE NETWORK PARADOX – I CAN LEARN AND ACCESS ALL EXISTING KNOWLEDGE: WHAT ABOUT STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE?

      5. THE EGO LOOP: EVERYTHING CONFIRMS I AM RIGHT

      6. SELF-ESTEEM AND IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR: LET’S CLICK NOW!

      7. THE UNSTRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE - I LEARN EVERYTHING ONLINE, BUT NOT ….

      8. THE FUTURE: QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

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      Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Table of Contents

      Bibliography

      1. THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANKIND KNOWLEDGE

      In the last thousand years, the development of knowledge passed through different journeys and methods. Since the beginning, families, and tribes kept their knowledge in

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